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I was the guest at a wedding just recently and took this photo. I'm very happy with it for my current ability with a camera and wondered if anyone has any comments?

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I would crop in a little to lose some of the distractions, clock at the top and the other camera on the RHS.
 
For me i would have liked to see the groom looking at the camera and maybe you could have stood in front of them , to get the centre frame , have you also noticed that posting on here washed the colour somewhat , in the link the pink is much stronger
 
Toothie said:
I would crop in a little to lose some of the distractions, clock at the top and the other camera on the RHS.
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Good point.. I'll leave it as is for the moment so as to learn from everyones comments. I think you mean't the other RHS (y)

Gary Wood said:
For me i would have liked to see the groom looking at the camera and maybe you could have stood in front of them , to get the centre frame , have you also noticed that posting on here washed the colour somewhat , in the link the pink is much stronger
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I think as the guest it might have been a little disrespectful to have moved in from of them, maybe the hired tog got that shot. I used Irfanview to resize and well observed with the colour. I didn't even notice! :)
 
Spend a a little more time in the pp to add a vignette to get rid of the distractions around the outside. Good start though with a nice expression on the brides face to add some feeling. :clap:
 
all the detail is in the dress, which often gets blown out on exposure, so thats a good start, theres been some excellent advice so far

Phil
 
Thanks for all your comments. I've tried to accomplish some of the suggestions and have come up with this..

IMG_4561b.jpg


I think maybe the phone still catches ones eye??
 
now clone out the guy at the back and the bag on the chair and you will have a great shot
 
I agree, get rid of the bag and the man in background would make it better, but for me the office window and stacked chairs are spoilin it a bit

EDIT
Had a quick play in Photoshop and came up with this

IMG_4561acopy.jpg


Now I know it's nowhere near perfect and people with better Photoshop skills could probably do better with their eyes shut.

I played with this really to see what I could achieve in Photoshop, if you want me to remove it I will.
 
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It's screaming out for a mono conversion and you have got to lose the fire exit sign. The negative vignette does it no favours.

30 seconds in Lightroom:

mono.jpg
 
I was thinking of mono as well, but all the definition in her face is gone.

Stick to colour I think [imo]
 
working from a 200kb jpg doesn't give me much choice....from raw I could lift it way more. The same goes for the artifacts in the shot.
 
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wow thanks for all them suggestions everyone.. and the examples you've posted.

Radiohead: I can provide that raw file if you were wanting to demonstrate what can be done.

Thanks again (y)
 
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